background: type ii diabetes is the most prevalent disease with numerous complications. adherence to treatment is an effective role on promoting health outcomes. this study aimed to assess the cognitive adaptation in treatment adherence and its relative factors in coping with disease among type ii diabetic patients. methods: this was a cross-sectional study which was conducted in 2012. study po...

Decision makers often must pool probability estimates from multiple experts before making a choice. Such pooling sometimes improves accuracy and other times diagnosticity. This article uses a cognitive model of the judge and the decision maker’s classification of the information to explain why. Given a very weak model of the judge, the important factor is the degree to which their information b...

In this paper we are interested in the computational and formal analysis of the persuasive impact that an argument can have on a human. We present a preliminary account of the listener mental process (representation and reasoning mechanisms of the dual process cognitive model) as well as her engagement based on the ELM model. This engagement determines the reasoning process that the agent will ...

■ The Eighth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Systems (QR ‘94) was held on 7–10 June 1994 in Nara, Japan. Fifty-three people participated, and 34 papers were presented in either oral or poster sessions. The papers either addressed core issues of qualitative reasoning or extended the field along three axes: (1) cognitive modeling, (2) mathematical sophistication, an...

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